Dementia & Sight Loss Training

 

Dementia & Sight loss Training

A one day course for social care staff working or supporting people with Dementia.  Including home carers, Rehabilitation Officers (Visual Impairment), OT’s,  Nurses and other professionals

The course is 7 hours duration and covers the types of dementia causes and current treatment & support. 

 

 

In addition, the course will look at additional issues caused by sensory loss. That affects  the design of support, assessment and developing and maintain a healthy life. Improving  communication support whilst living with dementia. Signs to look for, indicating sight loss, common symptoms of a dual diagnosis and how to get further support. This in turn will help you to develop and change your practice more effectively.

This course is offered In house for up to twenty people at a venue of your choosing for £800 INC VAT

Or you can access one of our many training days around the UK on our training course pages

 

 

 

Rights and Relationships for People with Learning Disabilities

 

Course information:

This course looks at the Human Rights Act, The Equality Act and Mental Capacity Act in relation to supporting individuals with learning disabilities with relationships and the law. It includes strategies for  support around people who are Gay, Lesbian or Transgender.

Participants will explore the law and how it how it effects their working relationship with people in care and support.  The programme will explore, through the medium of real life case studies, critical decision-making processes, in supporting people with their human rights with regards to relationships and sexuality, balanced alongside adult safeguarding issues and concerns.

Designed for and with Shropshire Joint Training Team we are confident this is a course that will resolve many issues for people working in social and health care support in this area.

Who should attend?

Support workers, home managers, ROVI’s, Learning Disability Nurses, Social Workers working with people who have learning disabilities and other related professionals

Course Deliver:

Will be by a series of PowerPoint presentations and some group work

Trainer

Mark Gray is a learning disability nurse specialising in complex needs, particularly sensory loss.

Mark has worked extensively with a wide client group of people with complex needs including people with dementia, Deafblindness and multiple disabilities. prior to running Mark Gray Associates, Mark was head of regional services for Deafblind UK and the national training research and development officer for the RNIB in Multiple Disability.

When Mark is not training, Mark Gray Associates supports a wide range of disabled people and their Personal Assistants who use continuing health care budgets and self-directed support to receive services in their own homes.

Cost

  • Available in-house for 20 people at a cost of £600 +VAT and travel  for 20 people

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Supporting People who have Dementia and Sight Loss

Course information: Supporting People who have Dementia & Sight Loss

A one-day workshop for Rehabilitation Officers and support staff supporting people who have Dementia and may be experiencing Sight difficulties this course is designed to give an overview of Dementia and common sight conditions experienced by older people.

The training course will then look at behaviours associated with sight loss where people are non-verbal or have difficulty explaining what is happening to them as their sight deteriorates.

This includes types of Dementia

Common Eye conditions of Ageing

Common Eye conditions linked to types of Dementia

Behaviours indicating sight loss

Strategies for support

The course will then touch on potential sight testing methods and look at adaptations to daily practice and the care environment to improve support.

This one-day course is delivered through a series of PowerPoint presentations and some group work. It is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop or on Zoom.

On line  or face to face courses are advertised on the News and Events section.

However, it is possible to organise your own in house course for up to twenty people in a venue of your choice.

The course is around 7 hours in Duration with Breaks for refreshments or video breaks if on line.

Who should attend?

  • Dementia Support workers
  • Home Managers
  • ROVIs
  • Learning Disability Support Workers working with people who have Down’s Syndrome  or older people with learning disabilities
  • Occupational Therapists and other related professionals

Cost:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT
  • Zoom Courses £75 +VAT

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Supporting People with Visual Impairment and Mental Health Issues

Course information:

The training programme will be facilitated as a series of described PowerPoint sessions and workshop sessions which result in key Practice points for each category.

At the end of the session the group will look at their own practice reflectively and look at what things they might change or do differently in relation to the days additional Knowledge.

Who should attend?

The course has been designed For Rehabilitation workers and Officers and similar professionals who support people with visual impairment in the community or in Hospital settings.

Costs:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT
  • External workshops £100 + VAT

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Visual Awareness Guiding and Environment Audit training

Course information:

This one-day course explores the main eye conditions that affect people with Visual Disabilities and will provide experience of Guiding Skills and Environmental Auditing to ensure safe practice.

This one-day course is delivered through a series of presentations and some group work. It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers are especially welcome.

Costs:

  • In-house course £300 + VAT and expenses

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Supporting People with Learning Disabilities who have Mental Health Issues

Course information:

The training programme will be facilitated as a series of described PowerPoint sessions and workshop sessions which result in Key Practice points for each category.

At the end of the session the group will look at their own practice reflectively and look at what things they might change or do differently in relation to the day’s additional knowledge.

Who should attend?

The course has been designed for Social Care staff and similar professionals who support people with learning disabilities in the community or in group home or day service settings.

Costs:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT

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Supporting Older People with a Visual Impairment

Course information:

A one-day course designed for care staff to assist their knowledge and understanding of sight loss in Older People.

The course looks at common eye problems, implications for support and covers identification, testing, supporting people before and after surgery for eye care and those who are certified as blind or as visually impaired.

The course is a mixture of presentations and practical exercises that will prepare the staff team for the vast majority of common sight loss scenarios. This course also covers the basics of guiding and support Issues.

The course can be carried out at your place of work or, if this isn’t practical, from a location nearby for a small additional fee.

The programme can be modified to suit your care needs, for example you may prefer more guiding skills, or environmental adjustment relating to access and DDA please contact us to assist you with your specific needs.

Costs:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT
  • Contact us if you need a location nearby.

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Supporting Individuals who have Dementia and Visual Impairment

Course information:

Supporting People with Dementia & Visual Impairment

A one-day course for carers and professionals supporting people who have dementia, the course will cover types of Dementia presenting symptoms and strategies for support.

Participants will receive instruction in strategies to support communication, daily living skills, wandering, managing difficult behaviour such as aggression and managing risk.

At the end of the day course participants will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the different causes of dementia.
  • Identify and assess the signs of Visual Impairment when formal communication is lost or difficult
  • Suggest practical  improvements & solutions to support the lives of those living with Dementia

Costs:

  • In-house course for 20 people £600 + VAT at your place of work
  • Costs include handouts, certificates and travel to your venue.
  • £100 +VAT for people attending our Courses
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Supporting people who are Deafblind with Learning Disabilities Course

Deafblind person doing sign language

Course information:

This one-day course on Supporting people who are Deafblind with learning disabilities  identifies the key visual and hearing conditions which combined can lead an individual to be supported as Deafblind.

It covers both congenital and acquired Deafblind issues and will provide an overview of the best communication support methods and resources for further support.

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Education ,Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers who are supporting people who are Deafblind with learning disabilities, SEN Teachers  and Parents are especially welcome.

Costs:

  • In-house course £400 + VAT
  • On line Course from £50 per person

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Putting Vision into Health Action Planning

Course information:

All people with Learning Disabilities should now have a Health Action Plan and Annual Health Check, This course explores the importance of assessing vision as part of this process and determining whether further support is needed. about a third of people with Learning disabilities could be certificated as Visually impaired another third require glasses or other visual aids.

This one-day course looks at the importance of including vision in health action planning and will identify the key issues for health care facilitators.

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

All health care facilitators or staff with a facilitation role. Parents and family carers are especially welcome

Costs:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT

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Human Rights and People with Learning Disabilities

Course information:

This one-day course looks at human rights and people with learning disabilities.

Course aims:

  1. To enable participants to understand the core principles of human rights and why they are relevant to people with learning disabilities.
  2. To enable participants to understand the key features and purpose of the human rights act and how it can be used in everyday practice.
  3. To enable participants to understand how human rights principles and standards apply to in the context of their work setting.

The trainers will be using a PowerPoint based presentation with several group participation workshops throughout the day.

It is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop.

Cost:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT
  • External workshops £100 + VAT

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Disability in the Equality Act (Updated for BREXIT)

How is your compliance?

Course information:

This one-day workshop is effectively an Audit tool for your business. Gender, Age, Sexuality, Disability was pulled into one act in 2010 called the Equality ACT, it was also strengthened in parts by new additions to Disability Discrimination Law, and Human Rights Law.

This one-day workshop is designed to ensure that you make cost effective reasonable adjustment without harming your service delivery.

The day will cover what’s new in the Equality Act that you need to know including:

  • How the Human rights legislation is enforced: Myths and Facts
  • What are the key issues for people with disabilities? This covers blind and visually impaired people, deafblind, physically disabled people, people with mental health problems and people with a learning disability.
  • Getting it right; what is reasonable adjustment?
  • Access issues (staff and customers)
  • Communication issues (staff and customers)
  • Employing disabled people
  • Where you can get help?
  • (updated) What are the Implications of Brexit to Equality & rights?

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Costs:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT

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Multiple Disability Master Class

Developing & Maintaining Communication in people with Profound & Multiple Learning Disabilities

A Multiple Disability Masterclass

Course information:

This one-day course will cover how to develop and maintain communication with people who profound  and Multiple learning Disabilities. in the form of a Master Class Lecture this is delivered to Students undertaking the Degree Courses in Learning Disability Nursing around the UK

It will cover Communication Theory, Zoning, and intensive action linked to formal object and switch interface conditioning.

Examples will be given for applying  practical methods for the development and maintaining of communication to support and develop choice and control. We will use  real life case studies of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities both of whom have additional sensory problems.

This course forms part of Mark Gray Associates Commitment to the Core Standards Published by PMLD Link

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers are especially welcome. The course has been extensively updated to support IMCA’s IMHA’s & advocates.

It is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop.

Cost:

  • In-house course £800 + VAT
  • External workshops £100 + VAT
  • Zoom Workshops £75 +VAT (Where Advertised)
  • Cost includes handouts and resource information

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Deaf Awareness and Learning Disability

Course information:

This course explores the causes of deafness in people with learning disabilities and looks at avenues of support from the hearing test to using Hearing Aids, signed communication and environmental aids.

It is available in-house for 20 people and includes handouts and resource information to take home.

Who should attend?

This course is open to all Health and Social Care professionals, parents and family carers are especially welcome.

Costs:

  • In-house course £600 + VAT

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Supporting People with a Visual Impairment and a Learning Disability

Course information:

Our Most Popular Course

Approximately one third of the population of people with a learning disability could be registered blind or partially sighted (500,000) a further third (500,000) require glasses or contact lenses to correct their vision. Source (lookup (See ability) 2009) (Emerson. E, Hatton.C), Population of people with LD in England For Valuing People Now (2007)

However many do not get access to the right eye health support and many go blind through treatable eye conditions that are not detected because of communication difficulties.

This one-day course outlines the common visual disabilities found in the learning disabled population, the behaviours that indicate sight loss, treatments and the development of person centred care pathways and additional support that is available.

The day will also look at sight testing from both function and acuity testing perspectives and how to support the individual and their carers through eye surgery, and wearing glasses for the first time. It is available in-house for 20 people or as an external workshop.

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Mark Returns to Head MGA

Mark Gray is pleased to announce he is back at Mark Gray Associates as the head consultant and trainer for the company.

Mark recently left to be the CEO at ARC UK but after eight months in the job both parties decided it was not working for them as they had planned.

Mark wishes all the best to the staff at ARC who supported him with the difficult issues he took the organisation through and is pleased that it has emerged a stronger and more financially secure organisation following his brief tenure.

Mark is now seeking interest for non-executive board work to supplement his time at MGA LTD.

Focus on Supervision

 

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Supervision Services

Supervision  is a recommended workplace activity in The Department of Health Good Practice in Learning Disability Nursing 2007 Publication. 

It recommends that all Nurses with RNLD should have regular time for supervisory activities such as reflective practice  self development and training. If you’re a nurse or a social care practitioner, In sensory Impairment or learning disability services and you are based in either the private or voluntary sector this might be difficult to get.

Our  supervision sessions are structured so that you have a chance to identify your work goals, discuss your mental health and wellbeing. Consider reflective practice on work issues, and develop or identify new positive strategies and problem solving. We will support you to find research training and mentoring and discover opportunities to make you a more rounded and professional practitioner.

Our supervision sessions

Each  supervision session is timed to be an hours duration and can be undertaken in person face to face at an agreed location* or sessions  will be Via zoom or Microsoft teams you will receive a copy of your supervision and details will remain confidential to you and the the supervisor. Unless a disclosure is made that may result in criminal proceedings or a safeguarding situation, in which you case you will be informed that the content will be shared with an authorised third party.

The frequency of sessions is decided by you we recommend a minimum of quarterly sessions or every three months, but you may have them more frequently such as monthly or fortnightly.

At Mark Gray Associates we can offer you regular external supervision paid via your workplace or by you direct with regular advice on CPD clinical support and access to helpful networks to improve and enhance your professional skills.

Mark Gray Associates can organise your Supervision sessions at very competitive rates.

Call us now on 0115 9732540 or contact us at info@markgrayassociates.co.uk

Focus on DDA Audits

Mark has developed considerable expertise in the field of Disability Discrimination Act Audits for Business.

Many private businesses are not yet DDA compliant.

Full and discreet Audits can be carried out at your premises looking at Public Access, Communication and Staff disability awareness and skills.

If you think your business needs an audit contact Mark Gray Associates today. mark@markgrayassociates.co.uk